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Summary of 2023年09月06日 Commodity Research Report

This report, published by Guo Tanjun Securities on September 6, 2023, focuses on various commodities, including precious metals, base metals, and industrial materials. Each section provides an overview of trends, key factors, trend strength, and recommendations. Common themes include supply-demand imbalances, macroeconomic influences like monetary policy shifts, and price volatility. Trend strengths are rated on a scale from -2 to 2. The analysis emphasizes caution due to uncertainties, with many recommendations advising for cautious trading amid lower highs and upper limits.

Precious Metals

• Gold: Experiences a touch of support, bouncing back from lows, but faces headwinds from strong PMI data and persistent dollar strength, likely leading to high volatility.
  • Trend Strength: 1 (Neutral to Bullish).
  • Recommendations: Potentially opportune for low-end buying, but caution against single-direction trades as economic uncertainties persist.
• Silver: Maintains a strongly mixed position, confined to high-level oscillations with limited upside driver.
  • Trend Strength: 1 (Neutral to Bullish).

Base Metals

Copper

• Inventory surges potentially curbing upside momentum, despite supportive Chinese policy releases and terminal demand recovery.
  • Trend Strength: 1 (Neutral to Bullish).
  • Recommendations: Domestic inventories and demand constraints limit gains, suggest caveat emptor above significant resistance levels.

Aluminum

• Faces 19,500 yuan supporting as key hurdle; avoid purchases until verified breaching, as elevated inventories and marginal losses in key regions drag downward.
  • Trend Strength: 0 (Neutral).

Zinc

• Neutral positioning with limited contradiction; temporarily contending above due to current spot elevations, but long-term factors may impinge on progress.
  • Trend Strength: 0 (Neutral).

Lead

• Experiences high volatility, primarily due to liquidity factors driving higher prices.
  • Trend Strength: 0 (Neutral).
  • Recommendations: Consider buying near the profitable regeneration point, but risks of premium decline are present.

Nickel and Stainless Steel

• Nickel prices escalate due to market fears, but fundamentals don't follow; expect slight pullback. Stainless steel market sees muted adjustments amid supply-demand balancing act.
  • Nickel Trend Strength: 0 (Neutral).
  • Stainless Steel Trend Strength: 0 (Bearish/Neutral to Bearish).
  • Recommendations: Avoid heavy positions in the near term; focus on mid-term nickel iron arbitrage.

Tin

• Exhibits supportive rebounds, leveraging low inventory for a structural edge.
  • Trend Strength: 1 (Neutral to Bullish).
  • Recommendations: Explore heavy-end accumulations for counter-cyclical trades.

Industrial Silca

• Correction despite earlier firms, persists within as oscillatory pattern due to tight market dynamics counteracted by growth constraints.
  • Trend Strength: -1 (Slightly Bearish).
  • Recommendations: Encourage static interval-based operations with baseline guides from 13,500 to 14,100 yuan/ton.

Carbonate Lithium

• Remains steeply oscillating within various boundaries, defying notable shifts in either aspect.
  • Trend Strength: 0 (Neutral).
  • Recommendations: Maintain buy-side stances only in conjunction with clarifying data pointers.